"This edition is strictly limited to one thousand numbered sets."

Copy no. 303/1000

Includes bibliography and index

v. 1. Editor's preface. The memory of the dead. Memoir of R.R. Madden. Historical introduction. Father Sheehy. Illegal associations. The Orangemen. The Volunteers. The borough parliament. Early Irish reformers.--v. 2. The Shan Van Vocht. Aim of the United Irishmen. Origin of the United Irishmen. New organization. Military organization. Use of torture. End of the rebellion.--v. 3. Tone's grave. Theobald Wolfe Tone. Archibald Hamilton Rowan.--v. 4. Erin. Arthur O'Connor. Lord Edward Fitzgerald.--v. 5. The wearing of the green. Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Rev. William Jackson. Thomas Addis Emmet.--v. 6. O! Breathe not his name. Thomas Addis Emmet. William James Macneven. Robert Emmet.--v. 7. The croppy boy. Report on the investigation to determine the burial place of Robert Emmet. Robert Emmet

(cont.) --v.8. Up for the green. Robert Emmet. Leonard MacNally. Roger O'Connor. Samuel Neilson.--v.9. The rising of the moon. Samuel Neilson. Henry and John Sheares.--v.10. The patriot mother. Henry and John Sheares. The Wexford leaders.--v.11. Ninety-eight. The Welford [i.e. Wexford] leaders. Secret service money expenditure. Secret service money revelations. The governmental spy and informer system. Major Sirr and "his people."--v.12. The informer. Correspondence of the spies and informers, chiefly of 1798 and 1803, with their employer, Major Sirr. Extracts from the original precis book of the Kildare magistrates' proceedings. Manifesto of the provisional government. Report in manuscript of Robert Emmet's speech. The spy system. List of the names of persons included in the Fugitive bill and Banishment act. Religion professed by persons of eminence, or leading members of the United Irish society. Bibliography (p. 202-235) Chronological outline of Irish history. Index

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Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in green publisher's cloth over boards. Front cover features ornamental centerpiece of the seal of the United Irishmen, a woman playing a traditional Irish harp, stamped blindly. Spine title, ornamental device, author, volume, and edition statement stamped blindly. Head edges in gilt. Printed on wove papers featuring visible watermark along fore-edge. Front pastedown of volume no.1 features bookplate, including black ink release stamp, or the Wigan Free Public Library, along with annotation in pencil script at head. Free front endpaper of volume no.1 features second-hand bookseller's price in pencil script at head. Volume no.1 title verso features shelf mark in pencil script, and limitation statement identifying copy as no. 303 of 1000. Volumes feature numerous annotations and markings in pencil script, as well as numerous ink and embossed stamps of the Wigan Free Public Library

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